Especially the slow scanners in the self check-out aisle. Some of them even have full shopping carts!
You know you scan slow, why do you have a whole cart!
Also we should be able to throw canned goods at people who have more than 12 (15 or whatever the sign says) items in the express lane. This is where the true break down of society begins.
Personally, I’ve always thought that people who go through the express lines with more items than allowed should be charged more. Maybe 10-25 cents per each item, which is donated to a charitable cause. (Local food bank, meals for elderly shut-ins, or if your feeling more sarcastic, adult education to teach grownups how to count)
Make the charge reasonable but well stated. Also, don’t allow the cashier to void it. If the person doesn’t want to pay it, they’ll just have to cancel their order and go wait in a normal line.
When I worked as a cashier at a big-box retailer 15 years ago, not only were we not allowed to enforce the “X items or less” limit, but if there were queues at the other lines we were required to send people with full carts to the “Express” lane. Management told me that we had a so-called “Express” lane because customers expected it, but it was just a placard and nothing more.
It should be a progressive escalator – $0.25 for the first item, an additional $1.00 for the second, $5.00 for the third, etc.
If it’s that important to them, they can pay.
Do you want your grocery store to go out of business? Because that is a sure fire way to drive your business into the ground. After word gets around, I see all your customers running to the competitors store whose slogan is going to be “We will not price gouge you like the Ourorboros grocery store.”
I find this ironic that on Wednesday you were talking about how you were so civilized that you don’t attack each other with spears. Yet on Friday you are planning on whipping and beating each other in the grocery store. Remind me to stay out of Wisconsin.
I like the idea of the lance, but it could get awkward as you approach the end of the aisle; you might skewer some innocent shopper while trying to turn the corner into the next aisle.
Especially the slow scanners in the self check-out aisle. Some of them even have full shopping carts!
You know you scan slow, why do you have a whole cart!
Also we should be able to throw canned goods at people who have more than 12 (15 or whatever the sign says) items in the express lane. This is where the true break down of society begins.
@Ourorboros:
Personally, I’ve always thought that people who go through the express lines with more items than allowed should be charged more. Maybe 10-25 cents per each item, which is donated to a charitable cause. (Local food bank, meals for elderly shut-ins, or if your feeling more sarcastic, adult education to teach grownups how to count)
Make the charge reasonable but well stated. Also, don’t allow the cashier to void it. If the person doesn’t want to pay it, they’ll just have to cancel their order and go wait in a normal line.
When I worked as a cashier at a big-box retailer 15 years ago, not only were we not allowed to enforce the “X items or less” limit, but if there were queues at the other lines we were required to send people with full carts to the “Express” lane. Management told me that we had a so-called “Express” lane because customers expected it, but it was just a placard and nothing more.
This is actually where the true break down of society begins.
Edit to my previous post: I meant to say …”10-25 cents for each item over the limit”
A good idea, either way.
It should be a progressive escalator – $0.25 for the first item, an additional $1.00 for the second, $5.00 for the third, etc.
If it’s that important to them, they can pay.
Do you want your grocery store to go out of business? Because that is a sure fire way to drive your business into the ground. After word gets around, I see all your customers running to the competitors store whose slogan is going to be “We will not price gouge you like the Ourorboros grocery store.”
It shall be the law of the land.
Besides, not everybody goes over the limit in express lanes.
I’m just going to shout “Have at thee, you sum’ bitch!” at people now.
“Have at thee you sum’bitch!” is gonna be my new Paladin’s battlecry.
I find this ironic that on Wednesday you were talking about how you were so civilized that you don’t attack each other with spears. Yet on Friday you are planning on whipping and beating each other in the grocery store. Remind me to stay out of Wisconsin.
I like the idea of the lance, but it could get awkward as you approach the end of the aisle; you might skewer some innocent shopper while trying to turn the corner into the next aisle.
I think you’d just raise it to vertical while you turn.